Meszecsinka

The last album of the band recently won the Fonogram Music Award (the Hungarian Grammy) for the best world music album of the year. The Songlines Magazine says about it: “…wild and messy, like the soundtrack to the rave at the end of the universe…”

Meszecsinka will perform this year at the Worldmusic Stage of Sziget Festival – the second largest stage of the biggest fest in Europe.

Meszecsinka is one of the 12 best Hungarian worldmusic bands according to the WOMEX edition of Dal+Szerző magazine. The band’s name means „Little Moon” in Bulgarian.

Meszecsinka tours frequently all around Europe. They visited the USA and Canada, recorded video on the Red Square in Moscow and a Balkan road movie. Their art video “Kinyílok (I open up) reached the sixth place on the videochart of World Music Network (UK) and fRoots Magazine (UK).

In 2015 Meszecsinka gave lessons and workshops about Hungary in schools and universities of Denmark. A new art video introduced Annamari’s passion towards Spanish music.

“Awake in a dream” is the latest work of the band, supported by the Armenian-Russian guitarist and producer Karen Arutyunyan. It was called “genius” by the Hungarian magazine HVG and “Maybe the best world music album of this year” by Magyar Narancs.

In this album Meszecsinka goes deeper and higher into their unique magical world. A shamanistic video shot in sacred places of Hungary was presented on the New Year’s Eve. In 2017 Meszecsinka performed at the APAP (Association of the Performing Arts Presenters) conference with great success in New York.

Members:

OLÁH Annamária – vocal, flutes

BILJARSZKI Emil – keyboards, guitar

VAJDOVICH Árpád– bass

KROLIKOWSKI Dávid– percussion

+ guest: Karen ARUTYUNYAN – guitar

Discography:

2012 (Author’s edition, 2012)

Kinyílok / I open up (NarRator Records, 2014)

Ai (Author’s edition, 2015)

Álomban ébren / Awake in a dream (NarRator Records, 2016)

Media:

“…ecstatic self-awareness, lascivious dancing, blissfully screaming and staggering sensual happiness. The vocal magician is Annamaria, an elfin singer with flowing gestures, dances barefoot on the floor while her voice wanders with fluttering vibrato and throaty tone” Deggendorfer Zeitung DE

“I guess we have received the world music album of the year, as a punch in the stomach” Magyar Narancs.about “Awake in a dream”

“Meszecsinka entices you with sounds of magical and hypnotic quality” Journal Frankfurt DE

„It's that kind of folk that sneaks up to the roots of wisdom teeth. Not with the songs for the tourists, but with dancing dervishes, moaning, ecstatic shamanism of the mediums. Or a soundtrack to the ritual execution." Dmoon.ru RU